please help me figure out this song!

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This is a weird one, I know, but hopefully someone can help me out…

A few months ago, I got a bit of a song stuck in my head, but I could not remember what it was. All I could remember was a line that was something like “you and I [something] oh, yeah!” I remembered the tune, but no one I sang it to had any idea (my lack of singing talent I’m sure contributed to that).

Strangely, this stuck with me for weeks, but I never heard it again on the radio or anywhere else. Until…

A couple of weeks ago, I heard the new Bruno Mars song, “24K Magic.” While this is clearly not the song stuck in my head, both due to the lack of the (fragmented) lyrics that I remembered, and because it was released this October, and my initial recollection of the song predates that, there is a part of the song that is very similar to the bit I recall.

It’s the part where he says: " I’m a dangerous man with some money in my pocket (Keep up)"

Is it possible that the tune to that part is sampled/copied from another song, or some other song is just similar to that? Anyone have any clue?

I know this is silly, but I would love to just get this ridiculous clip out of my head…

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I don’t get it. There is no tune when Bruno says that line, it’s basically just spoken.

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I don’t know if it’s exactly a tune, but the way he says it (the cadence?) is just like the song I remembered.

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FWIW, the earlier song came on the radio today, and this was definitely it:

I did a little googling, and found that I’m not the only one who thought there was a similar sound.

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Pretty much everything Bruno Mars does sounds like something somebody else did years ago, IMO.

It seems to be a trend in music this past decade or so, although there were certainly earlier isolated examples (<cough>Lenny Kravits<cough>, etc.).

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Yeah, I hear the similar feel of the fast-patter flow used. I love the feel of King Kunta - great groove.

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I agree. I dig a lot of the songs, but they do feel like they’re consciously evoking nostalgia. Parts of “24K Magic” feel like Prince to me (like I swear that tinkling four-note repeated synth pattern in the background is from a Prince song, but I can’t remember which one.) The rapping and beat remind me of old school rap. I know the OP found the Kendrick Lamar line from 2015, but that line reminds me of something much older, I want to say 80 rap. Now it’s gonna bug me.